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Russian Orthodoxy is also meeting competition from other creeds, particularly in the Ukraine, long the source of the majority of Orthodox priests and much of the church's income. A schismatic bishop has proclaimed the rebirth of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, which spurns Moscow's centralized religious rule. Even more threatening is the sudden resurgence of Eastern Rite Catholicism in the western Ukraine. The millions of Catholic believers follow Orthodox liturgy but are loyal to the Pope. After World War II, the Eastern Rite church was abolished at a Stalinist-controlled synod, followed by a bloody repression in which...
After Mikhail Gorbachev met with Pope John Paul II in Rome last December, he gave tacit recognition to Ukrainian Catholics. They have since formed at least 1,600 parishes, many of them using formerly Catholic buildings seized from Orthodox congregations. Talks between the Catholics and the Moscow patriarchate over the property disputes have broken down twice this year...
Ivashko has been described in the unofficial Ukrainian press as looking more like "a balding accountant in a collective farm than a man who manages people's destinies" -- but appearances are obviously deceiving. When Ukrainian party boss Vladimir Shcherbitsky, a Brezhnev-era holdover, refused to be dislodged from his post, Moscow eased Ivashko, an ethnic Ukrainian, into the job of second secretary in 1988. Within a year Ivashko had replaced Shcherbitsky...
Ivashko has prospered by carefully treading the centrist path and, like Gorbachev, making the best of the inevitable. Interviewed in his Kiev office shortly before he took up his new job, Ivashko insisted that "the Ukrainian people are masters of their own land." But complete separation from the union, he said, was "not politically, economically, socially or culturally feasible" for the Ukraine...
Betraying his training as an economist, Ivashko sketched a bell curve on a + piece of paper and insisted that Ukrainian extremists on the right and left ends -- whom he termed "people made of reinforced concrete" -- are small in number and impossible to satisfy. But what happens when the leadership itself is divided, as it is in the political triangle made up of centrist Gorbachev, radical Boris Yeltsin and conservative Ivan Polozkov, the new leader of the Russian republic's Communist Party? "Fate has brought these three to such a position that they have no right to be responsible just...